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At first she "lost," and then she won. A day after a mix-up in the results of the Miss Universe Canada 2013 contest was corrected, a Filipina, Riza Santos of Calgary, Alberta, was declared Canada's entry in the Miss Universe 2013 pageant, reports GMA News. During the validation of the computerized scoring results on May 26, a typo was discovered in the top five entries, which significantly changed the final results of the competition.

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